Of course he was human. We don’t hold by supernaturals. Both why would Humash (or the Aggadahs) bother to discuss anything that was irrelevant. We hold that Humash is an deliberately written work (by an extremely hashuv author, the best there is), not a scientific collection of data. Of course it is propaganda, and given who wrote it, it is propaganda we should take very seriously. If many things were left out, they were do so on purpose, and it isn’t for us to question the author’s purpose.
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